To:HIS MOTHER AND HIS SISTER MARIA

Published:First published in 1929 in the journalProletarskaya RevolyutsiyaNo. 2-3.

      Sent from Shushenskoye to Moscow.

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      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 37,

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October 19, 1897

Ireceived Manyasha’s letter of September 29th, Mother
dearest, on October 14; it told me about the delay of my
letters to
Mark.[1]I must admit I was afraid of this before,
when I knew that Mark was leaving. The delay, however,
was not very great, so small, in fact, that the manuscript
I sent reached its destination in
time.[3]

Iam still living as usual, in peace and quietness. The
weather is getting wintry, we, have long since sealed
ourselves up behind double windows, keep the stove going,
etc. The real cold is still to come, of course, and so far there
have been mostly autumn days when it is pleasant to stroll
through the forest with a gun. I shall probably continue
that exercise through the winter. Shooting in winter,
going after hares, for instance, is no less interesting than it
is in summer, and I regard it as one of the important
advantages of rural life.

Iusually get the magazines in the first half of the month.
I am now reading the September issues with interest. Soon
I hope to get some information from the editors about the
article I sent. If it is accepted I shall subscribe to a few more
magazines—I think I had better do it through the same
editorial office, so that there is no more muddle and I don’t
get the same copies twice.

Iam awaiting news of the arrival of Anyuta, Mark and
Mitya.

Yours,V. U.

Ihad a letter recently from Yuly. He writes that he
had moved to a new flat, much better than the old one,and is now fixed up so comfortably that he has been able
to work for the past month; he has written something and
sent it off. We shall see how he will stand the winter in
Turukhansk. Anatoly has found work,
temporarily.[4]

Mercifor the letter. Why do you keep saying that
I should write more frequently? Do you think I do not write
often as it is? You say yourself that you now receive two
of my letters at a time—what more do you want?

Upto now I have not received theL. G.[2]andBulletin. I do
not know the reason for the delay. If you happen to be near
the shop in which you ordered them, look in and hurry
them up.

BuymeProgrammy domashnego chteniya na 3-i god
sistematicheskogo kursa; it costs 50 kopeks at the warehouse
in Nikitskaya Street, Rikhter House, apartment 3. (I read
about this book today inRusskiye Vedomostiand want
to see what it is like. It is probably to be found in other
bookshops besides that warehouse.) And subscribe for me
to the new monthly publicationIzvestiya knizhnykh
magazinov tovarishchestva M. O. Wolfe, 35 kopeksa year(Kuznetsky Most, 12, Moscow). I want to see what sort of
publication it is. In general I have nothing that gives me
bibliographical information and which will tell me about new
books. If you are interested in this publication, subscribe
to it in your own name and send it on to me afterwards.
Its programme is so extensive and the price so low that
one cannot help thinking there may be some catch in it.
We’ll see.

Irecall that either Anyuta or you wrote to me about
having sent the second issue of Mehring. I have not received
it. It is quite possible that the first got through by chance.

Allthe best,V. U.

[1]SeeLetter No. 30—Ed.

[2]TheLabour Gazette.—Ed.

[3]Hereand below the manuscript referred to is that of Lenin’s
article “The Handicraft Census of 1894–95 in Perm Gubernia”.

[4]WhenA. A. Vaneyev was in Yeniseisk he found work in the
office of the engineer in charge of improving navigation on the
River Angara.